Nodes in a switched mesh use separate access and backhaul radios.
[1] Each dedicated mesh link is on a separate channel, ensuring that forwarded traffic does not use any bandwidth from any other link in the mesh.
At each mesh point, traffic is "switched" from one channel to the next, giving rise to the name.
[1] As a result, a switched mesh is capable of much higher capacities and transmission rates than a shared mesh and grows in capacity as nodes are added to the mesh.
[1] Switched mesh is one of three distinct types of configuration of wireless mesh networking products in the market today: